The gambling references made in the run-up to CityCenter's grand opening in Las Vegas are too numerous to count, but there's no irony lost in the fact that Bobby Baldwin, the megaproject's plain-spoken but charismatic chief executive officer, won the World Series of Poker in 1978.
A self-described "card player from Oklahoma," with his own Wikipedia entry (one that features Seventies-era pictures of Baldwin at the Vegas card tables), he quipped at the mega-project's opening ceremonies: "It's hard to believe you can get all this for only $8.5 billion."
A self-described "card player from Oklahoma," with his own Wikipedia entry (one that features Seventies-era pictures of Baldwin at the Vegas card tables), he quipped at the mega-project's opening ceremonies: "It's hard to believe you can get all this for only $8.5 billion."
